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VOL 10, NO. 16 A PUBLICATION FOR THE GAY CQMMUNITY AUGUST 2, 1979
Anti-Gay Groups Plan
March on Washington
just
loathe
the
word
Gay."
In an exclusive interview with The Blade, James Kirkwood, co­author
of the smash hitA Chorus Line, speaks his mind on a range
of subjects from Broadway to semantics. Kirkwood also authored
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, and· a first-rate production of this controver­sial
comedy has just opened at the Back Alley Theatre. A review
and the interview are on page 12.
Immigration's Blatant Bias Bared
by Larry Bush
The new right Christian fundamentalists,
claiming to be the strongest new force in
American politics, are stepping up their pol­itical
activity with the formation of two new
Congressional lobbies -and a call for one mil­lion
fundamentalists to stage a national
march on Washington next April.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a Lynchburg, Va.
minister whose earlier forays into politics
included an anti-Gay letter writing campaign
organized through . his national television
program, is forming a political lobby named
The Moral Majority. Falwell Jed several
thousand of his followers in a rally on the
steps of the U.S. Capitol last year, decrying
the "moral decline" in the U.S.
The Moral Majority will focus on lifestyle
and family issues, spokesmen said, including
opposition to sex education, abortion, and
Gay rights. Falwell has reaped praise from
Virginia legislators for building a small min­istry
into one of the largest and most prosper­ous
churches in the state, is expected to make
a strong commitmenJ to these programs.
. The second lobby group, One Nation
Under God, also is being formed by a Virgi­nia
minister, Pastor John Jimenez of Rock
Church in Virginia Beach. Jiminez already
Med Exams for Foreign Gays Dropped
by Larry Bush
Despite strong Justice Department objec­tions,
U.S. Public Health Service doctors
will be ordered this week to stop giving medi­cal
examinations for "homosexuality" which
are designed to bar foreign homosexuals from
America, Public Health Service [PHS] offi­cials
have told The Blade.
The decision by U.S. Surgeon General
Julius Richmond came after Justice Depart­ment
policy makers in Washington overruled
him as well as Justice's own lawyers when
Richmond sought to notify-a California court
that he would agree to stop medical examina-tions
for homosexuality. _
The change in policy concludes a five year
effort by the National Gay Task Force
[NGTF] and medical professionals to con­vince
PHS that it is inappropriate to use
medical examinations to bar homosexuals.
The Public Health Service has not yet not­ified
either the Justice Department or -the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
[INS] that it will change its policy or that it
will publicly announce that responsibility for
barring Gays, should the policy continue,
does not belong to doctors but to INS.
"We have now said that we are divesting
ourselves of this. Doctors abroad and doctors
here should not be involved," a high PHS
official told The Blade. "That's going' the last
mile. The burden belongs backi Qn them
(INS). They're not going to like it, and we·
don't know what they're going to do."
INS officials, who have learned of Rich­mond's
decision only informally, indicated
that they would continue to argue that PHS
should make examinations but that they
would act to bar Gays in any case.
"Already only about one in a hundred
cases (of suspected homosexuality) are
referred to Public Health," one INS official
admitted privately. "The rest of the sus­pected
aliens are simply intimidated through
prison detention -0r other methods to leave
without a fuss. That method will just be used
like gangbusters now."
An official close to INS General Counsel
David Crossland's office indicated that
."thousands of people are turned back at the
"In essence, the govern­ment
is asking us to serve as
interrogators. "
border for this, not just the Jess than a dozen
that.these people will admit to you."
Officially, INS has taken the position that
homosexuals could only be barred after a
medical examination certified them as
"afflicted with psychopathic personality,
sexual deviation, or mental ·disorder;'' a task
th~t PHS, up until now, had agreed it was
required to perform.
The Public Health Service has been under
incre!lsing pressure from the medical com­munity
to halt the examinations. Two weeks
ago the American Psychological Association
ruled that any of its members participating in
such examinations would be subject to
charges of "unethical conduct" and possible
expulsion from the professional group.
The American Psychiatric Association, the
first mentai health organization to enunciate
an official policy change in viewing Gays as
mentally ill, is considering a similar step, as
well as lodging charges of "abuse of psychia­try"
ilgainst U.S. officials, the same charge
the association has leveled against Soviet offi-cials
for theif handling of dissidents. ,
"It is psychiatry used as a social control,
not a medical issue," Dr. James Krejeski,
chairman of the Northern California Psychi­atric
Association's committee on homosexu­ality,
told The Blade.
"It is the same as if psychiatrists were
asked to determine if someone is Jewish or
Catholic. In essence the government is asking
us to serve as interrogators," Krejeski said.
Dr. John Spiegel, past APA president and
a leader in changing that organization's view
on Gays, told The Blade the seriousness of
psychiatric abuse has led him to file a deposi­tion
in the California court case of Carl Hill,
the British Gay activist whose lawsuit
brought the issue to public attention.
"It is the misuse by doctors of medical
standards for political purposes," Spiegel
said. "This is an example of inappropriate
and unwarranted utilization by the govern­ment
of the medical profession to make polit­ical
or social decisions."
Spiegel said the real test in a policy change
would come at INS, where Spiegel.has lob­bied
in the past for a change.
"There are a lot of hard hats out there,"
has assembled a national steering team-and
organized a sophisticated state-by-state pol­itical
action program.
A major thrust of Jiminez' plan is a
national march on Washington, scheduled
for April 29, 1980, with a call for cine million
fundamentalists to gather ;at the Capitol.
Jiminez also is organizing a day of lobbying
qontinued on page 4
FBI 'Zap'
Urged by .... Kameny
by Lou Chibbaro, Jr. ·
D.C. Gay activist Frank Kameny has
launched a "massive' p):mne-in" campaign
against the office Qf FBI Director William
Webster, with the intent of pressuring Webs­ter
into answering a list of questions sur­rounding
the firing of a Gay FBI employee.
Kamen~, who says he has called Webster's
office nearly 200 times, is distributing a flyer
listing the Director's unlisted telephone
number at speaking engagements and meet­ings
of Gay activist groups throughout the
city. "Our goal is to swamp him with at least
500 to 1,000 calls per day," he says.
According to Kameny, Webster refused to
answer questions seeking clarification of the
FBI's stated reasons for firing finger prints
clerk John A. Calzada, 22, making it impossi­ble
to construct an effective appeal. Calzada
received a written dismissal notice on May 1,
Continued on page 18
INSIDE:
• Gays Join Curb on Bias
• Congress Flat on anti-
Gay Bill
• Forum, _Wrap Up,
Nightlife, Music.
Community Focu ,
Calendar
- and much more!
,·

VOL 10, NO. 16 A PUBLICATION FOR THE GAY CQMMUNITY AUGUST 2, 1979
Anti-Gay Groups Plan
March on Washington
just
loathe
the
word
Gay."
In an exclusive interview with The Blade, James Kirkwood, co­author
of the smash hitA Chorus Line, speaks his mind on a range
of subjects from Broadway to semantics. Kirkwood also authored
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, and· a first-rate production of this controver­sial
comedy has just opened at the Back Alley Theatre. A review
and the interview are on page 12.
Immigration's Blatant Bias Bared
by Larry Bush
The new right Christian fundamentalists,
claiming to be the strongest new force in
American politics, are stepping up their pol­itical
activity with the formation of two new
Congressional lobbies -and a call for one mil­lion
fundamentalists to stage a national
march on Washington next April.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a Lynchburg, Va.
minister whose earlier forays into politics
included an anti-Gay letter writing campaign
organized through . his national television
program, is forming a political lobby named
The Moral Majority. Falwell Jed several
thousand of his followers in a rally on the
steps of the U.S. Capitol last year, decrying
the "moral decline" in the U.S.
The Moral Majority will focus on lifestyle
and family issues, spokesmen said, including
opposition to sex education, abortion, and
Gay rights. Falwell has reaped praise from
Virginia legislators for building a small min­istry
into one of the largest and most prosper­ous
churches in the state, is expected to make
a strong commitmenJ to these programs.
. The second lobby group, One Nation
Under God, also is being formed by a Virgi­nia
minister, Pastor John Jimenez of Rock
Church in Virginia Beach. Jiminez already
Med Exams for Foreign Gays Dropped
by Larry Bush
Despite strong Justice Department objec­tions,
U.S. Public Health Service doctors
will be ordered this week to stop giving medi­cal
examinations for "homosexuality" which
are designed to bar foreign homosexuals from
America, Public Health Service [PHS] offi­cials
have told The Blade.
The decision by U.S. Surgeon General
Julius Richmond came after Justice Depart­ment
policy makers in Washington overruled
him as well as Justice's own lawyers when
Richmond sought to notify-a California court
that he would agree to stop medical examina-tions
for homosexuality. _
The change in policy concludes a five year
effort by the National Gay Task Force
[NGTF] and medical professionals to con­vince
PHS that it is inappropriate to use
medical examinations to bar homosexuals.
The Public Health Service has not yet not­ified
either the Justice Department or -the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
[INS] that it will change its policy or that it
will publicly announce that responsibility for
barring Gays, should the policy continue,
does not belong to doctors but to INS.
"We have now said that we are divesting
ourselves of this. Doctors abroad and doctors
here should not be involved," a high PHS
official told The Blade. "That's going' the last
mile. The burden belongs backi Qn them
(INS). They're not going to like it, and we·
don't know what they're going to do."
INS officials, who have learned of Rich­mond's
decision only informally, indicated
that they would continue to argue that PHS
should make examinations but that they
would act to bar Gays in any case.
"Already only about one in a hundred
cases (of suspected homosexuality) are
referred to Public Health," one INS official
admitted privately. "The rest of the sus­pected
aliens are simply intimidated through
prison detention -0r other methods to leave
without a fuss. That method will just be used
like gangbusters now."
An official close to INS General Counsel
David Crossland's office indicated that
."thousands of people are turned back at the
"In essence, the govern­ment
is asking us to serve as
interrogators. "
border for this, not just the Jess than a dozen
that.these people will admit to you."
Officially, INS has taken the position that
homosexuals could only be barred after a
medical examination certified them as
"afflicted with psychopathic personality,
sexual deviation, or mental ·disorder;'' a task
th~t PHS, up until now, had agreed it was
required to perform.
The Public Health Service has been under
incre!lsing pressure from the medical com­munity
to halt the examinations. Two weeks
ago the American Psychological Association
ruled that any of its members participating in
such examinations would be subject to
charges of "unethical conduct" and possible
expulsion from the professional group.
The American Psychiatric Association, the
first mentai health organization to enunciate
an official policy change in viewing Gays as
mentally ill, is considering a similar step, as
well as lodging charges of "abuse of psychia­try"
ilgainst U.S. officials, the same charge
the association has leveled against Soviet offi-cials
for theif handling of dissidents. ,
"It is psychiatry used as a social control,
not a medical issue," Dr. James Krejeski,
chairman of the Northern California Psychi­atric
Association's committee on homosexu­ality,
told The Blade.
"It is the same as if psychiatrists were
asked to determine if someone is Jewish or
Catholic. In essence the government is asking
us to serve as interrogators," Krejeski said.
Dr. John Spiegel, past APA president and
a leader in changing that organization's view
on Gays, told The Blade the seriousness of
psychiatric abuse has led him to file a deposi­tion
in the California court case of Carl Hill,
the British Gay activist whose lawsuit
brought the issue to public attention.
"It is the misuse by doctors of medical
standards for political purposes," Spiegel
said. "This is an example of inappropriate
and unwarranted utilization by the govern­ment
of the medical profession to make polit­ical
or social decisions."
Spiegel said the real test in a policy change
would come at INS, where Spiegel.has lob­bied
in the past for a change.
"There are a lot of hard hats out there,"
has assembled a national steering team-and
organized a sophisticated state-by-state pol­itical
action program.
A major thrust of Jiminez' plan is a
national march on Washington, scheduled
for April 29, 1980, with a call for cine million
fundamentalists to gather ;at the Capitol.
Jiminez also is organizing a day of lobbying
qontinued on page 4
FBI 'Zap'
Urged by .... Kameny
by Lou Chibbaro, Jr. ·
D.C. Gay activist Frank Kameny has
launched a "massive' p):mne-in" campaign
against the office Qf FBI Director William
Webster, with the intent of pressuring Webs­ter
into answering a list of questions sur­rounding
the firing of a Gay FBI employee.
Kamen~, who says he has called Webster's
office nearly 200 times, is distributing a flyer
listing the Director's unlisted telephone
number at speaking engagements and meet­ings
of Gay activist groups throughout the
city. "Our goal is to swamp him with at least
500 to 1,000 calls per day," he says.
According to Kameny, Webster refused to
answer questions seeking clarification of the
FBI's stated reasons for firing finger prints
clerk John A. Calzada, 22, making it impossi­ble
to construct an effective appeal. Calzada
received a written dismissal notice on May 1,
Continued on page 18
INSIDE:
• Gays Join Curb on Bias
• Congress Flat on anti-
Gay Bill
• Forum, _Wrap Up,
Nightlife, Music.
Community Focu ,
Calendar
- and much more!
,·